[poppler] ABI stability

[Heinz Wiesinger]

On Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:33:40 CEST Adam Reichold wrote:
> Hello Heinz,
> 
> Am 24.05.2018 um 20:13 schrieb Heinz Wiesinger:
> > Of course, there's also the possibility that I'm missing something, in
> > which case, mea culpa. However, I would still appreciate some explanation
> > in that case, if only for my personal curiosity :)
> 
> libpoppler is not considered a public API. The frontend libraries
> (libpoppler-{qt5,glib,cpp}) are and therefore have API and ABI stability
> guarantees. Applications should try to target those and avoid working
> directly against Poppler's internal interfaces as much as possible. If
> the frontend libraries miss any specific functionality, people will
> usually try to expose that in a way that is idiomatic for the frontend
> in question.

Right, so the idea is that applications link the frontend libraries only. 
Since those are updated with poppler, applications shouldn't be affected by 
the so-version bump of libpoppler. I'll have a closer look what's happening 
here then. Thanks for the info! :)

Grs,
Heinz
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